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Spielberg: VR Gaming To Replace Consoles
Famed movie director Steven Spielberg has predicted the demise of consoles, suggesting virtual reality will be “the new platform for our gaming future.”
“All the videogame parlours went the way of the Dodo bird and now we're all playing at home, and someday we'll be playing directly on our TV sets, bypassing all of the platforms," Spielberg, who’s also the brains behind the Wii Boom Blox series, told the Guardian.
"In the short term I would love to start seeing 3D games being developed with a good pair of glasses [where] we get a real three-dimensional experience in front of an appropriate monitor that is designed just for 3D," he added.
"And after that will certainly be virtual reality, which just like 3D, that came and went in the 1950s, and now it's here to stay in movies. I really think virtual reality, which experimentally came and went in the eighties, is going to be redeveloped, just like 3D is being redeveloped today, and that's going to be the new platform for our gaming future."
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I really don't foresee such a transition for at least a few decades. The flaw of most furturist prophecies is a jump from the conventional to the fantastically far-fetched. Like the theorists of the 60's supposing we'd have flying cars by now. It simply doesn't make sense, and neither does VR. For now.
How about the demise of the big-budget Hollywood action-adventure film considering how bad the Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was. Next we'll have Uwe Boll telling us videogames aren't deep enough.
What is with Hollywood people and enormous heads. This is just like actors who think they know everything about global politics despite not even finishing high school.
Spielberg probably knows a whole lot about video games. But he is a nobody in the video game industry, and this statement is just pure bull speculation. If I personally had to prophesize about what technology is "the future", it would be motion sensing and similar. At least that's where the market is leaning towards currently.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Lost-7-Billion-on-Xbox-and-MSN-...
http://kotaku.com/5018899/sony-lost-331-billion-to-ps3-cost-pricing-imba...
I wonder if anyone knows how much a billion is? well these companies lost billions on these consoles. They are never going to be the same companies they once were.
These next gen consoles are a marketing failure.
check out the number of game devs gone just because of consoles and it’s going to be more.
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/483/the-developer-graveyard
Go away.
You're too cool for video games and know too much about the future. Go make billions from stock trading instead.
If there's still a market to be had, console makers aren't going anywhere. We are reaching a point where graphics can't get that much better visually. Physics and other processing is becoming the big factor in games. I just can't see them adding GPUs and powerful processors in TVs. Also, having games in VR glasses would remove a lot of the social aspect of console gaming.
I can see this happening with PC gaming (it's already starting) but saying it'll replace consoles is kinda silly unless you're talking about 20 years from now, which we really can't predict at this very moment.
I agree with him, both high production costs and consoles are killing companies. This is really not good in a ression plus consoles are on decline right now. Both mirco soft and sony have lost billions on consoles. I have to wonder did these companies even do a back ground check on the history of consoles? There is a reason so meny companies have gone bankuprt over consoles even apple. I also think alot of publishers and game devs companies will go bankuprt. Sony and micro soft will never ever make back all that money they have lost on consoles.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/e3-predictions/
the only busness I have seen is nintendo.
check out onlive or pc gaming for the future!
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/44654/PC/Crysis/Trailer/OnLive-Genefier-Movie
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935...
Dream, will you stop calling Microsoft micro soft. It is one word. You're so knowledgeable about the PC industry yet you can't seem to spell the biggest PC software company's name right.
Did I miss some thing?
When did this become a con sole fiscal discussion? I don't think Nin Tendo's losing money this generation. Besides, companies make up con sole losses with licensing; which is why it actually costs money to make a game on the 360 & PS3.
Lol, nice. I have no idea what your first two sentences say.
Graphics are way ahead of other components of video gaming. Personally, I'd gladly see more effort put into smarter AI for example.
It's time to realize that graphics are not the bottleneck of contemporary games.
Didn't we hear this same conversation in the early 1990s?
He should stick to destroying film series and not bother himself with the splendour of the video games...that's a good director...go back to your hole and play.....good
"All the videogame parlours went..."
"Video game parlours"? Do you think he means arcades? This man makes one lousy Wii game and thinks he's suddenly some kind of gaming guru. Please.
Hey Ivor, don't knock him. He's been in this business a long time.
In 1983, he put pressure on Atari stating, "If I could shoot ET in six weeks, you can make a game in six weeks. Have it out by Christmas".
& that game went on to become one of the MOST widely known games of the era. Many people believed that it shaped video gaming for years.
Is that sarcasm? Referring to one to one of the worst bombs of a game known to man? :)
That was. Hilariously, my facts are totally correct.
This is true. The way you phrased them, however :P
I really don't think VR is going to replace traditional gaming anytime soon. Also, they still have to get over the "hurl factor" involved with fast moving 3D images for some users. I remember IGN commenting on the 3D tech they saw at CES 2009 which caused some of the editors to feel sick after trying Gran Turismo Prologue in 3D.
Eventually, I'm sure there will be systems that seem similar to the promises of VR and true 3D - they made back in the day. However, I truly hate it when Spielberg comes along and shares his "vision of the future" and every single website I come across copies it like it's the 2nd coming - especially when it's just some chatter to promote his and his colleagues involvement in "3D" versions of their products - which are still a galaxy far far away from VR or anything actually 3 Dimensional.
Has this man even played a game using a game pad or joystick? I really doubt that.
It's really annoying that all these movie types are making statements like they know something about video games.
He's totally qualified to discuss this! As long as visionaries like him put out "Experiences" like Boom Blox, we'll be there in 5 years..tops!
5 minutes into that masterpiece of 480p graphics & stereo sound; I forgot I was holding a wand in a game. I could've sworn I was masterbating in the jungle.
* deleted due to Anti-Canadian statements *
hmmm, we would need to see the product cycles of a tv match that of a console and quite frankly its price too, for this to fly. Games require a CPU and a GPU; it don't matter whether it is in a plastic box called a console or embedded onto your tv motherboard, you need those chips. And those chips get old fast. By the 5 year point they are a joke be anyone's standards for performance no matter how hot they were at launch. I guess you could have removable conso....oops.. circuit boards in the tv. Then you have people with glasses to contend with, loss of sight in one eye, possibly the colour blind. Hey Steven, stick to revisionist history war and dinosaur flicks dude...
I agree, though its nice to hear he's still dreaming...